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The Show => Pumpkin 'tastic => Topic started by: Doris_Pinks on November 01, 2004, 09:48:18

Title: Carved Pumpkins
Post by: Doris_Pinks on November 01, 2004, 09:48:18: Here are the Pinks family pumpkins!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/bermujan/wItch.jpg)

Mine!

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/bermujan/phantom.jpg)
Mr Pinks Phantom

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/bermujan/scaredycat.jpg)
Eldest Pinks Scaredy Cat

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/bermujan/cat.jpg)
Youngest Pinks Ghost, and friends cat

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/bermujan/skull.jpg)
Friends skull (bit dark sorry!)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/bermujan/all.jpg)
All together!
We had huge amounts of fun doing them! They may stay out for a few days, I haven't the heart to consign them to the compost heap yet!
Title: Re:Carved Pumpkins
Post by: Moggle on November 01, 2004, 11:35:39: Wow DP, they are all fantastic. What a creative bunch your family is :)
Title: Re:Carved Pumpkins
Post by: Kerry on November 01, 2004, 16:14:52: goodness, they look so intricate!! i would never be able to carve anything like that!
Title: Re:Carved Pumpkins
Post by: Mrs Ava on November 01, 2004, 22:24:14: Wowzers DP! They are bloody amazing matey! Ours are all sitting on the back step and will stay there until they start to droop! Tis great fun doing it, dunno who gets more excited.....us adults of the kids! ;D
Title: Re:Carved Pumpkins
Post by: Jill on November 02, 2004, 11:40:47: Brilliant. Just how do you carve such intricate designs, Pinks family?
Title: Re:Carved Pumpkins
Post by: Doris_Pinks on November 02, 2004, 12:51:58: Aha Jill! I draw the designs on the pumpkins with a thin permenant marker, (loads of sites on the web to get ideas of designs from) and Mr Pinks cobbled together a "knife" using a small jigsaw blade, corn on the cob holder and masking tape! Power tools in the form of a drill is good for making eyes! You have to remember to scrape the inside away (Plastic ice cream scoop good for this job!) where you are going to cut, or you are there forever trying to saw through inches of flesh! (but you can't have it too thin or it collapses ;D) We had a fun afternoon :D
Title: Re:Carved Pumpkins
Post by: Jill on November 02, 2004, 15:29:38: Cor, DP. How inventive! My OH isn't half so useful. Set him a digging task at half term and poor love couldn't cope - he was in bed by 8pm every night. (Have to admit it was about 20 tonnes of top soil to be shifted ;D).

Glad you all had such fun doing your pumpkins.
Title: Re:Carved Pumpkins
Post by: Andy H on November 02, 2004, 20:29:01: :o They are excellent!
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Post by: Spurdie on November 04, 2004, 21:16:57: WOW! GREAT pumpkins, Doris! I expect they're all on the compost heap now. What a shame!
Title: Re:Carved Pumpkins
Post by: Doris_Pinks on November 04, 2004, 22:24:38: Errrrrr actually Spurdie, they are still sitting outside with lots of tiny black flies buzzing around! I just don't have the heart to chuck them! :'(
Title: Re:Carved Pumpkins
Post by: Spurdie on November 05, 2004, 20:24:43: Borrow some of Andy's deodorant. He'd probably do a swap for some homemade cookies instead of pot noodles! ;)